Media Blitz 36624

• During the Bancrofts’ “not acrimonious at all” discussion regarding the potential sale of the Dow Jones corporation, “Christopher Bancroft entered the hotel wearing a ‘Bite Me’ fishing cap.” Touché.

• WSJ vet leaves paper after 22 years to join Portfolio, avoid working for Rupert Murdoch.

• Gossipy Hamptons rag Dan’s papers sold for enough money to buy a “pretty nice” house on Amagansett Lane.

• Wenner Media and Time Inc. promoted a bunch of lowly staffers who you’ve probably never heard of.

• WaPo’s Tom Shales rates moderator Anderson Cooper’s performance in last night’s YouTube debates: “I thought he handled it about as well as you could. He said at the beginning, we don’t really know what we’re doing here, which was a good way to kind of make an excuse before anything went wrong. And a lot of things did go wrong technically.” Nice! In a backhanded-compliment sort of way.